extravagancy
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The Chinese regard the West's failure to make use of excrement as "extreme extravagancy," says Wittwer.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, 'sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
I had thought all such extravagancy perished with the Launcelot and Palomides of your book.
From Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell
Pantagruel one day, to refresh himself of his study, went a-walking towards St. Marcel's suburbs, to see the extravagancy of the Gobeline building, and to taste of their spiced bread.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
No, sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Long gone are the extravagancies of Granit Xhaka, in exchange for a far more acceptable and even-tempered Rice, who is a far better footballer anyway.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024
Such extravagancies cannot but detract from scientific validity.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Venus Observed is modern, sophisticated, drawing-room bred, .and its ironies, at times, stare down its extravagancies as arrant trespassers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sir, you will pardon my extravagancies in these relations.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
With Pitt these extravagancies had only been the frolics of genius.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
